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The Great Acting Blog: “Create An Impact Like Your Favourite Actors”

03.09.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

You can turn up and do acting like a job, just going through the motions, checking your watch, being comfortable. And that's fine. But you'll end up producing work without any impact, work that fails to make an impression, work that does not matter to...

Wise Words From Orson Welles | The Great Acting Blog

16.08.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Subscribe | @GreatActingBlog Welles' insights here are mainly centred on creativity and being an artist, along with a little bit of philosophy, ie; ways to think about our work. Here are a few wise words by him...

The Great Acting Blog: “Create Meaning, Purpose And Fulfilment”

07.08.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

If you only want to turn-out humdrum work, you'll have to scream louder to make yourself heard amid the cacophony, but every so often you will get what you want. It's easy in one sense because you're dishing out something you don't care about, the stakes...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Celebration Of The Imagination”

12.07.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

The following are basically diverse statements, which suggest that, yes, the imagination is the source of our creativity, of creating something entirely new, but that it also affects how we perceive what is already in existence: those who work on their imaginations may perceive more...

An Actor’s Story About Fear | The Great Acting Blog

08.05.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

I once knew an actor who was very inspiring. He was the first actor I ever met who seemed properly dedicated. He was intensely focussed on his work, read avidly, and he was exciting to be around because you wanted to see what he was...

The Great Acting Blog: “Continually Improve And Become An Artist”

23.03.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

It's up to you to decide what you want to put into the world. Whether you want to just fit in, behave, go with the flow, do as your told, punch in and punch out, or whether you want to be an artist, dedicated, prolific,...

Never Never Compromise | The Great Acting Blog

24.02.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6ooNOcpfK4 "it's like someone saying, "you're film's not stupid enough, so it's pretentious"- Jim Jarmusch A Jim Jarmusch film doesn't happen all that often, perhaps about once every four or five years. However, while his contemporaries from the US indie film scene of the 1980s have either...

Creativity And Daydreaming | The Great Acting Blog

14.10.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 27 Comments

“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other 22 in dreams.” - Luis Bunuel. If you, like me, were bored out of your skull when you were at school, especially during double geography on a Friday afternoon, then you probably spent...

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